“Excuse me,” laughed Melvin. “You remind me of Bosworth in your ‘care with regard to your attire,’ as Moore put it. That last kick quite cleared my mind. I don’t doubt that Bosworth is bad enough to take money from a safe, if he needed it and there were no chance of being found out. If in this case he was able to do it, and afterward had money to pay his bills with, the presumption in our minds is against him, and that’s all. We haven’t any proof and aren’t likely to get any. Tommy isn’t suspected and we aren’t suspected. So what business is it of ours, or what could we do if it were our business?”
“First answer me a couple of questions,” said Varrell. “Why did you go to Bosworth and threaten him as you did?”
“Because he was doing a lot of harm in school, and that was the only way to stop it.”
“And now you’ve stopped the poker-playing, do you think he’s a fit fellow to stay here?”
“No, he’s probably bad in other ways and will do more harm before he’s through, but I don’t know about that, and I did know about the gambling with the little boys.”
“And I do know about this,” added Varrell, decidedly. “In the first place, he’s got hold of Eddy again and made him lie to Moore about the safe combination. I saw him in Bosworth’s room that Saturday morning talking about it.”
“There you go off the track again!” laughed Dick. “You saw him in Bosworth’s room; you guessed he was talking about the safe. The only thing there of any consequence at all is what you really saw.”
A look of annoyance settled on Varrell’s face. “Look here, Dick,” he began, as if he had something important to say. Then suddenly changing his tone, he added significantly: “You’re right, the only thing of consequence is what I saw. Some people see more than others,” and sheered off abruptly toward his room.
“What a queer chap Wrenn is!” mused Dick, as he lazily climbed the dormitory stairs. “Sometimes he’s as keen as a razor; at others he gets an idea fixed in his head, and you can’t knock it out with a club. I hope he won’t get his mind set on this safe business.”